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The ICEM has taken up a call for support to 430 paperworkers in Argentina, represented by affiliate Federation of Workers&rsquo; of the Paper, Carton, and Chemical (FOEIPCyQ) Unions. 
 
Employed by the Argentine company, Massuh SA, the workers did not receive wage payments in January and the second half of December 2008. The company is also guilty of non-payment of social benefits last year, in which cheques to public entities failed due to insufficient funds. 
 
FOEIPCyQ&rsquo;s Executive Council has given the situation high priority. The union is pressing the Ministry of Labour, Employment, and Social Security, as well as the Buenos Aires Provincial Ministry of Work to address the situation. FOEIPCyQ is also delivering food to families, as well as providing other support. 

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The ICEM has written to the financially troubled company demanding immediate payment of back wages to workers. &ldquo;The number one priority for any company should be the payment of fair compensation to workers,&rdquo; wrote the ICEM. &ldquo;We urge you to handle this matter in a socially responsible way, as well as to use full dialogue and commitment with the legitimate workers&rsquo; representative,&rdquo; the FOEIPCyQ. 
 
The ICEM strongly encourages affiliated trade unions to take the Spanish-language Letter of Support to Massuh workers, found <a href="/index.php?id=78&amp;la=EN&amp;doc=3014">here</a>, place it on your letterhead, and e-mail to the union, at <a href="mailto:fedpapel@speedy.com.ar">fedpapel@speedy.com.ar</a>. 
 
Massuh operates a pulp and paper mill with two paper machines in Quilmes, near Argentina.

ICEM Seeks Support for Argentine Paperworkers Who Have Been Denied Wages

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ICEM affiliate Sintracarb&oacute;n in Colombia last week achieved major wage and other gains, including 180 promotions for contract workers. The two-year contract, ratified 78-6 by the union&rsquo;s Delegates Assembly on 18 January, is with Carbones del Cerrej&oacute;n, the thermal coal exporter owned by AngloAmerica, BHP Billiton, and Xstrata. As reported in December by the ICEM, miners were seeking social improvements regarding family health, education, transportation, restrictions on outsourcing, and other social responses inside several Colombian communities in la Guijara state. 
 
The renewal agreement covers some 4,000 workers at Colombia&rsquo;s largest mining operation, and successful negotiation of the contract keeps in place a social dialogue commitment between management of Carbones del Cerrej&oacute;n and Sintracarb&oacute;n that the ICEM was instrumental in forging in 2004. 
 
Talks began on 1 December toward a 31 January 2009 expiration, with the union in early January giving a 17 January deadline for negotiations to conclude. 

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The contract grants an 11% pay increase to Cerrej&oacute;n miners and workers at the company&rsquo;s Puerto Bol&iacute;var export facility on the Caribbean for 2009, some 3% to 4% higher than the average negotiated settlements in Colombia. In 2010, workers will receive a 7% increase or 1.8% above the 2009 consumer price index, whichever is higher. 
 
Besides 180 precarious workers moving to full-time employment, the employer agrees to respect the right of contract workers to affiliate with Sintracarb&oacute;n. The negotiations also yielded improvements in transportation to and from the open-cast mines, education stipends for miners&rsquo; and port workers&rsquo; children, retiree benefits, and talks also produced financial sums to Sintracarb&oacute;n to perform benevolent deeds and community services. 
 
Besides improvements to health insurance, Cerrej&oacute;n management agreed to fund a study to be undertaken by the union related to workers&rsquo; health concerns. 
 
The Colombian union requested ICEM trigger international solidarity in the form of letters to the managing director, and that call was answered by numerous unions, which had a profound effect. ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda wrote on behalf of the 20-million-member Global Union Federation supporting Sintracarb&oacute;n, warning the company that an expeditious settlement must come or strike action would result.
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Our union is grateful to all the unions, social organisations, NGOs, and community networks that exhibited national and international support that was fundamental and instrumental&rdquo; in achieving the contract, Sintracarb&oacute;n said in a statement. 
 
ICEM&rsquo;s Warda said the labour-management process of social dialogue at Carbones del Cerrej&oacute;n serves as an impressive example on what can accomplished through mutual respect and shared responsibility. 
 
The Colombian operation of the three multinationals mines a high-quality, low-sulphur thermal coal that meets stringent emissions standards in many countries. The company is embarking on a US$300 million modernisation plan this year to upgrade infrastructure, technology, and mining equipment. The mines produced 32 million tonnes of coal in 2008, with production expected to increase to 40 million tonnes by 2011.

Sintracarbón Miners Win Two-Year Renewal Contract at Colombia’s Biggest Coal Deposit

It was largely due to the efforts of those who suffered and their union representatives that governments, after decades of inaction, finally introduced regulations on the use of and exposure to asbestos. But asbestos is still around and there are those who continue to tout it as the &ldquo;magic mineral.&rdquo; While your brake linings and floor tiles may still contain asbestos, most of today's production is now exported to third world countries where weak regulation and enforcement allows people to be fatally exposed to the killer fibres. 
 
WHAT IS ASBESTOS? 
Asbestos is a class of silicate mineral fibre. There are three main asbestos minerals: chrysotile, crocidolite, and amosite. The most common type is chrysotile. 
 
Because of their chemical structure, they form long crystalline fibres of amazing strength and fire resistance which can be recovered from the mineral. Asbestos is used in textiles, cement products, brake linings, filters, roofing tiles, flooring, fillers for plastics and thousands of other products. 
 
While union activists in the 1970&rsquo;s and 80&rsquo;s managed to put the workplace hazards on the front burner and achieved enormous reforms on the job and legislatively, the fact is that asbestos is still in use. And the concerns initially raised by unionists 30 years ago, while still valid, have been somewhat muted by a well funded industry lobby, at times in sync with our governments. 
 
It is useful for health and safety activists to keep alert on the dangers inherent with the use of asbestos and to keep the focus where it should be: saving our members&rsquo; livelihoods and lives. 
 
There are a multitude of environmental and health related issues surrounding the use of asbestos in society. 
 
ASBESTOS RELATED ISSUES 
 
EXPOSURE LIMITS 
Even though there is no evidence that there is any &ldquo;safe&rdquo; level of exposure, most jurisdictions have enacted limits. Check what applies in your workplace. Workers need to assure themselves, when working with or near asbestos, that exposure limits are not being exceeded; that protective measures are adequate (respirators, clothing, etc.); and, that you are not endangering yourself. In many jurisdictions, you have the right to refuse unsafe work. 
 
SMOKING AND ASBESTOS 
An asbestos worker who smokes will have many times the risk of cancer than a non-smoking asbestos worker; or a non-asbestos exposed smoker, would have. But attempts to deflect the dangers of asbestos by blaming high cancer rates on smoking are irresponsible. The fact is that asbestos workers who have never smoked in their lives die of asbestos related cancers. 
 
BLUE vs WHITE 
There has been some suggestion that only &ldquo;blue&rdquo; (crocidolite) asbestos is a problem and that &ldquo;white&rdquo; (chrysotile) asbestos is relatively safe.. If true, why is asbestos related disease so widespread when crocidolite accounts for only 3% of all asbestos used? 
 
IMMOBILIZED FIBRES 
Industry makes the argument that the fibres are immobilized or bound together in such a way they cannot be released in many asbestos products. But, there are workers who must handle these fibres prior to their incorporation into such products and others who must saw, cut or fasten them in such a way that the fibres may, indeed be released. 
 
FIBRE MODIFICATION 
There is little or no evidence that chemically modifying asbestos fibres renders them safer and the only way to find out is to wait decades for workers to die or get sick. 
 
SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS 
Fibreglass and other synthetic mineral fibres are the main asbestos substitutes. While it may be true that they are safer to work with than asbestos, the best approach for workers is to treat asbestos substitutes with suspicion and handle them with caution. The more similar the substitute is to asbestos, the more likely it is to have similar health effects. 
 
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES 
Asbestos provides a good example of the link between occupational and environmental health and safety. Widespread environmental contamination with asbestos in asbestos producing region and near industries which use asbestos may be causing a &ldquo;cancer epidemic in slow motion.&rdquo; 
 
JUST TRANSITION 
Regrettably, the money already spent by some governments propping up this sunset industry could have been used to create a first class Just Transition programme for asbestos workers, their families and the communities that have depended on the asbestos industry. 
 
HOW ASBESTOS KILLS 
Asbestosis is one disease caused by asbestos in the lungs. Some scientists think that when asbestos fibres are inhaled, cells called macrophages attempt to engulf and digest them. The fibres are not easily dissolved by the digestive enzymes, however &ndash; although certain harmful chemical constituents of asbestos may be dissolved enough to be a problem in themselves. As well, the size and shape of asbestos fibres causes some of them to project through the cell wall of the macrophages, allowing these powerful enzymes to leak out and attack surrounding lung tissue. The end result is progressive scarring and damage to the lungs, resulting in loss of elasticity of the lung tissue. Damage can become severe enough to cause disability and death. 
 
Cancer is another consequence of asbestos exposure. Estimates of the number of cancer cases vary widely. Of the cancers that asbestos is known to cause, 80% are lung cancers; 10% are mesotheliomas; and 10% are others such as throat, stomach and intestinal. Although some asbestos cancers are difficult or impossible to distinguish from cancers caused by other agents; mesothelioma (cancer of the lining of the lungs or intenstines) is ONLY known to be caused in humans by asbestos. Mesothelioma is 100% fatal. 
 
IF YOU THINK THERE IS ASBESTOS IN YOUR WORKPLACE: 
Demand an immediate workplace Asbestos Survey. Your Joint Health and Safety Committee should lead the effort to identify and map all occurrences of asbestos and should be given all resources required to do the job. Once the asbestos has been identified, the JHSC should develop recommendations to control exposure. There are four generally accepted approaches. In order of preference, they are: 
 
1. Removal of the asbestos material: In all cases, this is the CEP&rsquo;s recommended solution. It is the only way to ensure the hazard is eliminated. Strict procedures must be followed and enforced which means careful planning and attention to the training of all workers and supervisors as well as to the choice of replacement materials. 
 
Of the four accepted approaches to dealing with asbestos, removal is best 
 
2. Encapsulation or sealing of the asbestos material: Coating or impregnating the asbestos material with a bonding agent immobilizes the fibres and reduces their release. Danger still exists, however, because the bonding material may deteriorate or work (cutting, grinding, repairs, etc.) may be performed on the material, creating the potential of fibres being released. Encapsulation should be considered a temporary measure with the objective of removing the asbestos material at some appropriate future date. 
 
3. Enclosure of the asbestos material: If neither removal nor encapsulation is possible within a reasonable time, the next best approach is to separate the asbestos material from the rest of the workplace by some kind of barrier (removable ceilings or walls are not acceptable). Enclosure is not a control measure and should be accepted only as a temporary means of protecting workers until removal can be completed. 
 
4. Asbestos management plan: If any materials cannot immediately be removed completely and safely, a management plan will be required. If any asbestos materials remain in the workplace, even if encapsulated or enclosed, an ongoing system is needed to: 
&bull; Maintain clear identification of the areas where exposure may take place; 
&bull; Educate people what to do if work must take place in or near these areas; 
&bull; Inspect the materials frequently for any changes; 
&bull; Formulate a complete removal strategy as quickly as possible. 
 
There are many lessons to be learned by union activists from the decades of battle which have been waged to protect ourselves and the public from asbestos hazards: 
 
&bull; Legislation and regulation on their own are not a total &ldquo;win&rdquo;. Regulatory solutions, too often, come after a problem becomes a crisis and while we need good laws, we also need better ways of identifying and controlling hazards before the death toll mounts. 
 
&bull; Our memory is too short. Having greatly reduced the uses and abuses of asbestos in the 1980&rsquo;s, too many people lowered their guard, believing the battle had been won. This has created an opportunity for the industry to rewrite history and win a rebirth. 
 
&bull; Scientists and other supposed independent authorities are just as vulnerable to undue influence as anyone when powerful economic forces are at work. 
 
&bull; Finally, the asbestos history reminds us that our best tool for building improved occupational health and safety is sold union activism at the shop floor level. 
 
DON&rsquo;T TAKE YOUR RIGHTS TO THE GRAVE 
If there is any doubt about whether the work is proceeding safely or not, remember that the regulations are a minimum standard. Compliance with regulations may not be sufficient in some cases. Remember, too, that workers in some cases have the right to refuse unsafe work. Don&rsquo;t take your rights to the grave!

ASBESTOS IS A KILLER

(Statement by International Metalworkers&rsquo; Federation) Union leaders representing the international labour movement met with Santiago Canton, Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS, in Washington, DC, to urge immediate action on Mexico and investigate gross labour and human rights violations carried out by the Mexican government against the National Miners and Metalworkers' Union of Mexico (SNTMMSRM). 
 
Led by Marcello Malentacchi, general secretary of the International Metalworkers' Federation and Juan Luis Zuniga of the National Miners' and Metalworkers' Union of Mexico, the delegation included: international representatives for the United Auto Workers (UAW) and United Steelworkers (USW); Manfred Warda, general secretary of International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM); Stan Gacek of the AFL-CIO; Victor Baez, general secretary of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA-ITUC); and petitioners Marco Del Toro and Luis Chavez from Del Toro Associates as legal representation to the Mexican miners' union. The high-level delegation put forward recommendations to the commission, among them, urging an immediate call on the Mexican government to:
■ return all frozen funds immediately to the SNTMMSRM, those seized in 2006 and in 2008;
■ lift all charges still pending against Napoleon G&oacute;mez Urrutia and other members of the SNTMMSRM;
■ prosecute in a court of law, immediately and transparently, all those responsible in the corruption of documents and facts; and
■ recognize Napoleon G&oacute;mez as the democratically elected general secretary of the National Mexican Miners and Metalworkers Union.
&quot;This case constitutes an important precedent for this commission which will mark its position on all acts of political persecution which prevent a person from aspiring to adequate defense against the abuse of power by a State,&quot; read the amicus curiae letter submitted by the delegation in support of the complaint filed with the commission by the Mexican miners' union. 
 
&quot;The interference by the administrative authorities in judicial matters has thwarted any possibility of defense with a view to obtaining speedy verdicts in accordance with the law. The guarantee of due process has clearly been overtaken by the bias of the judicial authorities,&quot; the letter read.
The delegation also urged the commission to take immediate &quot;precautionary measures&quot; regarding the government's recent illegal seizure of all union accounts and funds; the government's refusal to officially recognize Napoleon G&oacute;mez Urrutia as elected general secretary of the miners' union; and health and safety issues of miners on strike at three mines owned by Grupo M&eacute;xico, the largest and most powerful mining company in the country. &quot;Precautionary measures&quot; are measures for immediate action that the commission can take if there is a strong indication that irreparable harm may take place.
&quot;Clearly this is of moral and strategic importance to us,&quot; said Stan Gacek, speaking on behalf of the American labour movement. &quot;This is of significant importance to us at the national level, the regional level and the international level, as you can see given the representatives here. We have issues of irreparable harm here and we think that precautionary measures are absolutely critical.&quot;
Commissioner Santiago Canton thanked the delegation for their time and received the recommendations and evidence of human rights violations put forward by the international delegation of trade union leaders.

Trade Unionists Demand Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Action over Mexican SNTMMSRM Abuses

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ICEM Genel Sekreteri Manfred Warda Meksika h&uuml;k&uuml;metinin uyguladığı sendikal baskıyı Burma ve Zimbabve rejimlerinin uygulamalarına benzetti. Meksika'da y&ouml;netim son olarak iki sendika y&ouml;neticisini tutukladı ve sendikanın banka hesaplarına el koydu. 
 
H&uuml;k&uuml;metin sistemli baskısı altındaki Meksika Maden ve Metal İş&ccedil;ileri Sendikası (SNTMMSRM) &uuml;lkede demokratik bir &ouml;rg&uuml;t olarak varlığını korumak i&ccedil;in m&uuml;cadele ediyor. 
 
Son tutuklamalar &uuml;lkedeki en b&uuml;y&uuml;k bakır madeni şirketi Grupo M&eacute;xico ile diğer işverenlerin isteği &uuml;zerine yapıldı. ICEM başka sendikacıların da tutuklanmak &uuml;zere olduğuna dikkat &ccedil;ekiyor. 

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İki sendika y&ouml;neticisi, SNTMMSRM'nin Politik Sekreteri Carlos Pavon Campos ile sendikanın Genel Adalet Konseyi Başkanı Juan Linares Montufar, Grupo M&eacute;xico'nun Cananea bakır madeninin &ouml;zelleştirilmesinden sonra sendikaya verilen fonları &ccedil;almakla su&ccedil;lanıyor. Meksika'da Fresnillo, Madero, and Sabinas madenlerinin aralarında bulunduğu bir&ccedil;ok işyerindeki maden iş&ccedil;ileri tutuklamaları protesto etmek &uuml;zere iş bıraktılar. Madenciler iki sendikacının serbest bırakılmasını talep ediyorlar. 
Juan Linares'in yasadışı tutuklanması, federal ve eyalet g&uuml;venlik g&uuml;&ccedil;lerince 3 Aralık g&uuml;n&uuml; evinden alınmasıyla ger&ccedil;ekleşti. Carlos Campos'un keyfi ve yasadışı bir şekilde Camarones g&ouml;zaltı merkezine g&ouml;t&uuml;r&uuml;lmesi ise ertesi g&uuml;n ger&ccedil;ekleşti. 
Meksika y&ouml;netiminin baskı uygulamaları son &uuml;&ccedil; yıldır kaygı verici bir seyir izliyor. SNTMMSRM'nin Genel Sekreteri Napoleon Gomez Urretia iki kez sendikadan alınarak g&ouml;t&uuml;r&uuml;ld&uuml;, diğer sendika y&ouml;neticileri de haksız ve uydurma su&ccedil;lamalara maruz kaldı. Bu su&ccedil;lamaların bir&ccedil;oğu mahkemelerden d&ouml;nd&uuml;.

ICEM Meksika Hükümetinin Uyguladığı Sendikal Baskıyı Kınıyor

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K&uuml;resel federasyon y&ouml;neticilerinden oluşan bir heyet, 5 Aralık 2008'de tutuklanan Kore Sendikalar Konfederasyonu (KCTU) Başkanı Lee Suk-haeng'in serbest bırakılmasını sağlamak &uuml;zere 26 Ocak 2009'da G&uuml;ney Kore'ye gidiyor. Heyetin başında Uluslararası Sendikalar Konfederasyonu (ITUC) Genel Sekreteri Guy Ryder ve OECD nezdindeki Sendikal Danışma Komitesi (TUAC) Genel Sekreteri John Evans yer alacak. 
 
Ziyaret, KCTU ile Kore Sendikalar Federasyonu'ndan (FKTU) oluşan ortak komitenin ge&ccedil;en hafta yaptığı toplantıda, h&uuml;k&uuml;metin uyguladığı &ldquo;sendikal baskıdan duyduğu ciddi kaygılar&rdquo;ı a&ccedil;ıklaması &uuml;zerine ger&ccedil;ekleşecek. 
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Lee Suk-haeng, ABD'den Kore'ye sığır eti ithalatını protesto etmeye y&ouml;nelik grevler ve oturma grevleri yapılmasını teşvik etmek ve 2007 ortalarında E-Land perakende firmasının mağazalarında oturma grevleri d&uuml;zenlemek suretiyle &ldquo;iş yaşamını engellemekle&rdquo; su&ccedil;lanıyor. E-Land şirketi, Kore'de ge&ccedil;ici iş&ccedil;ilere sınırlı haklar tanıyan D&uuml;zensiz İsitihdam Yasası'nın 1 Temmuz 2007'de y&uuml;r&uuml;rl&uuml;ğe girmesinden &ouml;nce 900 ge&ccedil;ici iş&ccedil;iyi işten attı. 
 
İşten atmalar, bir protesto patlamasına yol a&ccedil;tı. Binlerce kişinin desteğiyle 12 mağazada patlak veren oturma grevlerinde başı işten atılanlar &ccedil;ekiyordu. 20 Temmuz 2007'de polis oturma grevlerini kırmak i&ccedil;in şiddet kullandı ve eylemleri d&uuml;zenlediğinden ş&uuml;phe edilen sendika y&ouml;neticileri hakkında tutuklama kararları &ccedil;ıkarıldı. Aralarında KCTU Başkan Yardımcısı Jin Young-ok ile Genel Sekreter Lee Yong-sik'in bulunduğu diğer sendika y&ouml;neticileri de tutuklandı. 
 
Aralık ayında, ICEM, G&uuml;ney Kore Başkanı Lee Myung-bak'a g&ouml;nderdiği mektupta, 20 milyon &uuml;yeli federasyonun &ldquo;sendika y&ouml;neticilerinin sadece temel iş&ccedil;i haklarını kullanmalarından &ouml;t&uuml;r&uuml; tutuklanıp hapse atılmasından&rdquo; dehşete kapıldığını belirtti. ICEM şimdi G&uuml;ney Kore y&ouml;netimini, Ocak sonlarında &uuml;lkeye gidecek k&uuml;resel sendika heyetinin isteğine saygı g&ouml;stermeye ve devletin uyguladığı sendikal baskıyı kınayan iki Kore sendikal merkezinin talebini kabul etmeye &ccedil;ağırıyor; ayrıca, Lee Suk-haeng'in derhal serbest bırakılması &ccedil;ağrısını yineliyor.

Küresel Federasyon Yöneticileri Lee Suk-haeng&#039;in Tutuklanmasını Araştırmak İçin Kore&#039;ye Gidiyor

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Gazze halkına insani yardım malzemesiyle y&uuml;kl&uuml; ilk kargo u&ccedil;ağı, Uluslararası Nakliyat Federasyonu'nun (ITF) katkılarıyla, ge&ccedil;en hafta, 8 Ocak g&uuml;n&uuml; Mısır'da Al-Ariş'e indi. Hem ITF hem Uluslararası Sendikalar Konfederasyonu (ITUC) yiyecek, su ve tıbbi yardım gere&ccedil;lerinden oluşan sendikal yardım malzemesini ulaştırma &ccedil;alışmalarını aktif olarak s&uuml;rd&uuml;r&uuml;yor. 
 
Ortadoğu'daki nakliyat sendikalarından ve diğer sendikalardan toplanan yardım malzemesi Gazze'deki Kızılay'a iletildi. Aynı zamanda &Uuml;rd&uuml;n Hava Nakliyat ve Turizm İş&ccedil;ileri Sendikası'nın y&ouml;neticisi olan, ITF Arap &Uuml;lkeleri Temsilcisi Bilal Malkawi, ITF tarafından satın alınan hayati malzemeyi i&ccedil;eren kargonun naklini denetliyor. Malzemenin nakli &Uuml;rd&uuml;n Kraliyet u&ccedil;aklarıyla yapılıyor. Yardım u&ccedil;uşları devam edecek. 

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ITF Genel Sekreteri David Cockroft ş&ouml;yle dedi: &ldquo;Bu tıbbi malzeme hayati olmakla birlikte, Gazze'de acil bir ateşkese duyulan ihtiyacı herhangi bir şekilde azaltmıyor.&rdquo; 
 
Hatırlanacağı gibi, ICEM 31 Aralık'ta yaptığı bir a&ccedil;ıklamada derhal ateşkese gidilmesi &ccedil;ağrısında bulunmuştu. 
 

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B&uuml;t&uuml;n d&uuml;nyada, &ouml;zellikle Ortadoğu'da sendikalar İsrail'in Gazze'ye y&ouml;nelik saldırılarını kınıyor ve Gazze'deki silahsız Filistin halkına y&ouml;neltilmiş bu vahşi saldırının durdurulmasını talep ediyor. 
 
ITUC Gazze halkına sendikal yardımı ulaştırmak i&ccedil;in Filistin ve &Uuml;rd&uuml;n'deki ulusal sendikal merkezlerle (PGFTU and GFJTU) birlikte &ccedil;alışıyor. ITUC &ldquo;Gazze'ye Sendikal Yardım&rdquo; adlı bir hesap a&ccedil;mış bulunuyor. 
 
ITF'nin ve &Uuml;rd&uuml;n Hava Nakliyat İş&ccedil;ileri Sendikası'nın &ccedil;alışmalarına katkıda bulunmak isteyen sendikalar malkaw_bilal@itf.org.uk adresinde Bilal'le temasa ge&ccedil;ebilirler.

ITF ve ITUC&#039;un Çabalarıyla İnsani Yardım Malzemesi Gazze&#039;ye Ulaşmaya Başladı

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19 Kasım g&uuml;n&uuml; Irak İş&ccedil;i Konseyleri ve Sendikaları Federasyonu'nun (FWCUI) Basra'daki genel merkezinde &ouml;nemli bir toplantı yapıldı. Toplantıda federasyona bağlı şube başkanları petrol sekt&ouml;r&uuml;nde yapılacak se&ccedil;imlerle ilgili hazırlıkları g&ouml;r&uuml;şt&uuml;ler. Toplantıya petrol sekt&ouml;r&uuml;nden 36 sendika y&ouml;neticisi katıldı.
FWCUI'nin hazırlık komitesi koordinat&ouml;r&uuml; Thair Ismail'in y&ouml;nettiği toplantıya sendikanın idari ve mali işlerinden sorumlu Raiad Mahmod ve Haydar Abd Alilah ile FWCUI Petrokimya B&ouml;l&uuml;m&uuml; Sekreteri Karim Johi de katıldı. 

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Toplantıda se&ccedil;imlerle ilgili sendika &uuml;st komitesinin g&ouml;revlerini belirleyen &ouml;neri paketi hazırlandı ve bu komitenin yayımlayacağı talimata uyulması &ccedil;ağrısı yapıldı. 
 
&Ouml;neri paketinde, sendika &uuml;yelerinin federasyonu bağımsız bir &ouml;rg&uuml;t haline getirmelerini sağlayacak, kadınların federasyona bağlı sendikalara katılımlarını &ouml;zendirecek mekanizmalar &ouml;ng&ouml;r&uuml;l&uuml;yor, sendikacıların b&uuml;t&uuml;n sekt&ouml;rlerdeki iş&ccedil;ilerin faaliyetlerini desteklemeleri ve federasyonun gazetesinin b&uuml;t&uuml;n işyerlerinde yayımlanması ve dağıtılması &ccedil;ağrısı yer alıyor. 

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Toplantıda kamu sekt&ouml;r&uuml;nde bağımsız sendika kurulmasını h&acirc;l&acirc; yasaklayan, 1987 tarihli ve 150 sayılı Saddam d&ouml;nemi kararnamesi ele alındı ve sendikaların &uuml;ye sayısını artırma sorunu &uuml;zerinde duruldu. FWCUI kendisine bağlı sendikaları iş&ccedil;ilerin elinde g&uuml;&ccedil;l&uuml; birer ara&ccedil; haline getirmeye &ccedil;alışıyor. is focused on making its unions power tools in the hands of workers. 
 
Toplantıdan bir hafta sonra, 5 Aralık g&uuml;n&uuml;, FWCUI, ABD ile Irak y&ouml;netimi arasında imzalanan &ldquo;G&uuml;venlik Anlaşması&rdquo;na karşı sert bir a&ccedil;ıklama yaptı. A&ccedil;ıklama anlaşmaya karşı &ccedil;ıkıyor ve anlaşmaya karşı &ccedil;ıkan Irak'taki diğer g&uuml;&ccedil;leri, &ldquo;muhalefetlerini halkı g&uuml;&ccedil;lendirecek şekilde politik alana taşımaya&rdquo; &ccedil;ağırıyor.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Irak İşçi Konseyleri ve Sendikaları Federasyonu Sendika Seçimlerini Görüştü

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T&uuml;rkiye'de Unilever'in taşeron şirketlerinde &ccedil;alışan nakliyat iş&ccedil;ilerinin sendikal haklarıyla ilgili uyuşmazlıkta bu ay bir gelişme kaydedildi. &Uuml;&ccedil; k&uuml;resel federasyonun -ICEM, Uluslararası Nakliyat İş&ccedil;ileri Federasyonu ITF ve Uluslararası Gıda ve Tarım İş&ccedil;ileri Federasyonu IUF- ve T&uuml;rkiye'de onlara &uuml;ye &ouml;rg&uuml;tlerin uyguladığı uluslararası baskı, uyuşmazlığın &ccedil;&ouml;z&uuml;m&uuml; y&ouml;n&uuml;nde bu ilk ve &ouml;nemli adımın atılmasına yol a&ccedil;tı. 
 
Taşeron şirketleri &Ccedil;ipa ve Şimşek'in y&ouml;netimleri Uluslararası Nakliyat Federasyonu ITF'nin &uuml;yesi T&Uuml;MTİS ile bir protokol imzalamayı kabul etti. Protokol uyuşmazlıkla ilgili bazı konuları ele alıyor. K&uuml;resel federasyonlar ile ICEM &uuml;yesi Petrol-İş ve IUF &uuml;yesi Tek-Gıda-İş'in T&uuml;rkiye'de d&uuml;zenlenen bir toplantıda bir araya gelerek Unilever'e baskı uygulama kararı almasından bir bu&ccedil;uk ay kadar sonra, Aralık ayında oldu bu gelişme. 

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İmzalanan protokol Gebze'deki y&uuml;zlerce nakliyat iş&ccedil;isini temsil eden T&Uuml;MTİS'in şirket tarafından tanınmasını hen&uuml;z sağlamıyor, ama sendikada &ouml;rg&uuml;tlenen 87 iş&ccedil;inin işten atılmasıyla ilgili bazı sorunları &ccedil;&ouml;z&uuml;yor ve işverenler nakliyat iş&ccedil;ilerinin sendikal &ccedil;alışmalarına karşı &ccedil;ıkmamayı kabul ediyor. 
 
&Ccedil;ipa ve Şimşek'in T&Uuml;MTİS'i tanıyıp onunla s&ouml;zleşme g&ouml;r&uuml;şmesi yapıp yapmayacağına iş mahkemesi karar verecek. 
 
Protokola bağlanan anlaşmaya g&ouml;re, işten atılan iş&ccedil;ilerden bir kısmı işverenlerden tazminat alıyor, haksız işten &ccedil;ıkarmalar konusundaki davaları kazanan bir kısmı ise ek tazminat alıyor. Bazı iş&ccedil;iler işe iade edildi, diğerlerinin işe iadesi i&ccedil;in sendika &ccedil;aba harcıyor. 
 
T&Uuml;MTİS Genel Sekreteri G&uuml;rel Yılmaz, protestolar ve k&uuml;resel sendikal dayanışma sonucunda sendikalı iş&ccedil;i sayısının 200'&uuml;n &uuml;zerine &ccedil;ıktığını, sendikanın &ouml;rg&uuml;tleme &ccedil;alışmalarının bu sayede hız kazandığını a&ccedil;ıkladı. 
 
Yılmaz 20 Ekim toplantısında dayanışma amacıyla bir araya gelen sendikal &ouml;rg&uuml;tlerin desteklerini s&uuml;rd&uuml;rmelerini istedi. ITF OECD'nin &Ccedil;okuluslu İşletmelerle İlgili Kuralları &ccedil;er&ccedil;evesinde sendikal hakların sağlanmasına y&ouml;nelik &ccedil;alışmalarını s&uuml;rd&uuml;recek. 
ICEM, ITF ve IUF ile T&uuml;rkiye'deki sendikalar Unilever'in taşeron şirketleriyle ilgili uyuşmazlığı izlemeye, taşeron iş&ccedil;ilerinin sendikal haklarının tanınması ve toplu s&ouml;zleşme bağıtlaması i&ccedil;in baskı uygulamaya devam edecek. &Ccedil;ipa ve Şimşek Unilever'in &uuml;r&uuml;nlerinin T&uuml;rkiye'de ve Ortadoğu'da dağıtımını sağlıyor.

Türkiye&#039;de Ortak Küresel Sendikal Eylem, Unilever’deki Taşeron İşçilerine Kazanımlar Sağladı

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Indian Oil Sector Officers&rsquo; Association (OSOA) President Amit Kumar announced the start of a three-day strike on Wednesday, 7 January. Strikers, representing 14 organisations in the OSOA, demand higher wages. The union numbers some 50,000 white-collar workers at hundreds of Indian enterprises. The OSOA is not affiliated to the ICEM. 
 
Three public sector companies, the Indian state oil company ONGC, and refineries were hit and it coincided with a strike by Indians truck drivers, whose own strike began Monday, 5 January. Petroleum Secretary R.S. Pandey conceded that production was being curtailed at Koyali refinery, Panipat refinery, Mathura refinery, and the Haldia refinery. 

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The government took a tough stand, invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) at several locations. The first day of the nationwide strike saw gas supplies to industrial consumers disrupted, and the government arrested two employees under ESMA, and suspending nearly 100 others across the country. OSOA leaders Narendra Goyal and Somesh Ranjan were both arrested in Delhi from their offices. 
 
Representatives of the All India Motor Transport Congress truckers union said their strike would continue despite the arrest of their president, Charan Singh Lohara, and secretary S Venugopal on Friday.

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